MG Holidays

The Lincolnshire Poacher Goes to Prum in Germany by Alan Wright

Prum, a delightful town in the Eifel Region of Germany, closes the Town Centre and holds a festival on the last weekend in June each year. This year we took our MGB Jubilee GT to Prum and joined in the festivities. The Lincolnshire Poacher came along in the form of the MGCC Lincolnshire Centre logo proudly displayed on our MG Car Club Lincolnshire Centre polo shirts (thanks to Dave Noble). This caused much interest, although someone thought it was Robin Hood!
The trip was tinged with sadness because it was planned with our friends Martin and Sue Grant, who have been going to Prumer Sommer for a number of years and are well known by the organiser Wolfgang Heller, members of the MGCC Germany and many of the other regulars. Sadly Martin died in April and we made the trip on our own.
Photo (right) courtesy Rolf Möbius. Receiving route directions from Claudia Brand.
Early morning start: Michael Rost with the first LHD Morgan+8 to be imported in Germany and well used with regular trips through Europe to Greece and Rolf Möbius and Claudia Brand with their MGB V8 Roadster.

On Saturday we enjoyed a lovely run through the picturesque Eifel Region with 70 other classic cars. A truly international run through Germany, Luxemburg and Belgium with stops for morning refreshments, champagne! (no coffee) and lunch at a beautiful country Inn.
Photo (right) Wolfgang Heller, event organiser, getting ready to leave after a pleasant hot lunch at the “Im Pfenn” Inn (in the background). We are third in line, just visible.

Saturday night was BBQ night, lots of beer and schnaps in good company with diverse conversation and much laughter. We all received a sausage, yes a sausage (salami), from the Eifel Region as a memento. There was much discussion on the best way to keep the sausage. A surgeon recommended keeping it cool by hanging it in your cellar for two or three weeks before eating it. We ate ours when we got home, it was delicious!

Good company and great ice cream in the Basilikavorplatz Prum.

L to R, Claudia Brand, Rolf Möbius, Ziggi and Franz Peters (Franz is Vice President of the MG Car Club Deutschland e.V.) and Jacqui.

On Sunday the roads in the centre of Prum were closed and filled with stalls, bandstands and crowds from around the region.

All the classic cars paraded through the streets and each one was introduced to the crowds with a brief history of the car. As the only English participants we got an extra cheer.

Photo left: Lining up to enter Prum
Driving through the stalls towards the centre

Waiting to be introduced to the crowds

All too soon it was time to pack and get ready to come home. We thoroughly enjoyed the whole weekend and we were made to feel very welcome even though we were the only English couple there and spoke virtually no German.

Next year, who knows?

Alan and Jacqui Wright

 

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